: Think about this - The flood are able to control electrical impulses, or at
: least use them to a certain extent.

: Perhaps in the High Charity network Cortana learned enough about Flood
: physiology to thoerize that she might be able to use it/them as a network
: to live in, even use them to stop the Covies and the Flood.

: She may be crazy, but being crazy don't make you change sides, necessarily,
: just pursue illogical means of furthuring your own cause.

: -noah

Yeah, Gravemind doesn't necessarily have to be an ancient AI, it just makes things fit a little more solidly if he is. I think it suffices that there is something very odd with Gravemind, even beyond the obvious, not to mention the likelihood of his connection to both the Flood and the Forerunner.

To an extent, it's his control over Halo's subsystems that really gets to me and leans me over to a deeper connection between him and the Forerunner. And I think a connection to the Flood is obvious, though some may disagree.

If Gravemind is Queen Flood, I want to know what makes him special. I imagine Cortana does as well, seeing as she's got a lot more at stake here than I do.